Clearing the loft found a big part of my computing history BBC computer #000798 from ‘82 originally model A then upgraded to B. 4 inch B&W TV on which I somehow scored over 500,000 on Planetoid night before maths A level. Many, many happy hours spent Basic/assembler coding and playing games on this. Floppy disk drive & dot matrix printer long gone. https://lnkd.in/dK_6AYx
My first work computer - for BT, used for analysing data streams to build the first cross-organisational email connectivity Russ E. S Malde Hans Grupping
Has anyone seen my Spectrum?
Love it Adam! Brings back many happy lost teenage years playing games, 6502 assembly programming, and publishing games (I wrote Roboman that was published by Alligator software)
You need to get a Microvitic CUB to finish of the set up!
Nice one Adam!
Inspiration behind the raspberry pi computer :-)
And from the model B came the next chapter in UKs computing industry... ARM "Acorn Risc Machines" computers.
My BBC Micro (Model B, no less!) is still in my parents’ loft... When I’m allowed to visit them...I will fire up the Beeb and see if my disk drive (that was modern and fast at the time, compared to cassettes) can still load Defender...🥳
Brilliant! You’ve inspired me to go hunting for my old Atari 64k ST. Did you actually get it working again?
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3y"and if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you". I remember happy days spent deep in Assembler and Fortran trying to solve math and statistical challenges.